Word: modell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student of history tells us that freedom is the fruit of stability. China's rising unemployment, determination to privatize state industry, and ever-growing population ensure a significant restless minority for the foreseeable future. Uncritically adopting an American model of political freedom today would most likely lead China down a Russian road of chaos and despair...
...Tiananmen massacre was in the same vein as the United States' use of military force to violently suppress student uprisings during the Vietnam era. And prison labor is not unique to China; America uses prisoners to perform all sorts of tasks. In both of these cases, the Chinese model is more horrible than that of the U.S., but only by degree. As for religious freedom, many Islamic regions of China are given partial autonomy. The religion that is truly persecuted is Christianity, perhaps because it is often associated with the greatest humiliations of modern Chinese history: Western Imperialism, opium...
...says that TV Guide's story will also address how her own life--not least her attendance at Harvard--and personality contribute to Shelby's role-model-status for young girls...
...stage for the statehouse triumphs was set in 1996, when organizations like the conservative National Right to Life Committee realized that no partial-birth bill was likely to get through Congress that year. The group set about drafting model bills for the states and providing information to affiliates nationwide. At the grass-roots level, activists organized prayer vigils and phone banks to persuade state legislators. The strategy has worked. Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the NRLC, believes the push has changed the nature of the abortion debate. "The question is now determining what are the parameters...
...dividends, didn't fully recover for 25 years. And the '68 peak was part of a sideways market that lasted 18 years. Some believe a long dry spell like the one after the '68 bust, which included a 46% decline in the market in 1973-74, will be our model. Others say the model will be the even more disturbing decline of stocks in Japan since 1989. There, the market has fallen 63%, and assets in mutual funds have plunged...